• Small Wins

  String change save ("and a beaut")

  Posted by DiscostewLA on December 18, 2024 at 4:24 pm

  So I was changing the strings on my GS-Mini over the weekend and I put the strings on in reverse order. I didn’t notice until I was all the way done and picked up the guitar to strum it for the first time and – OH NO!

  I have probably done somewhere around 15-20 restrings in my life and have never messed that up before. But the small win is that I was able to save the strings by loosening them up so I could pull the bridge pins out, then I unwrapped the string from the tuning peg restrung them in the right order.

  Happy Wednesday TACFam!

  • This discussion was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by  DiscostewLA.

  Loraine replied 1 year, 2 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  jbroder3me-com

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  December 28, 2024 at 12:14 pm

  You are awesome

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    DiscostewLA

    Member

    January 20, 2025 at 8:43 am

    We all have our moments… 🙂

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  petelanger

  Member

  January 20, 2025 at 9:10 am

  LOL! Wow, that’s lucky it worked out! When I restring my guitars I usually cut the strings pretty short immediately after wrapping the tuning peg leaving about a half an inch of wire so I probably couldn’t reverse them.

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  Loraine

  Member

  January 23, 2025 at 9:43 pm

  That is funny – not laughing at you. I’ve had to remove a string or two over time, and I’m had to carefully do what you did and was able to get it back on. I think we all go into rote-mode sometimes, and when we “come to,” for lack of a better term, we beat ourselves up. I actually laugh at mys3lf a lot just so I don’t get too down on myself too much.

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